Joe Biden thanks gun control groups

Vice President Joe Biden this week thanked a group of gun control activists who had worked on new measures after the Sandy Hook school massacre and urged them to stay in the fight.

The Wednesday meeting at the White House was with a group that had been huddling regularly as Democrats crafted the proposed legislation that failed in the Senate last week, according to Pia Carusone, the executive director of Americans for Responsible Solutions, the group co-founded by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

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Biden, Carusone said, compared the Senate defeat of the bill to the work he did on the Brady Bill in the late 1980s and 1990s, when he was a senator from Delaware. The bill was wrangled over for years before it ultimately won passage.

Among those on hand for the meeting, Carusone said, were officials from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, as well as the Center for American Progress.